Guess the Mystery Destination

In hopes of making this blog a little more interesting, I thought I'd try a guessing game as to where Clay and I went this past Saturday. Here are some picture clues (no scrolling ahead or you'll spoil the surprise!)

This wouldn't help me at all, but if you're good with a GPS, you could figure it out from this picture. Clay was excited by how many satellites he could access at our high altitude.






I'd take these signs seriously if I were you!





I promise this really is a clue.





Yes, it's a very long way down from all of the viewpoints we stopped at.






If you haven't guessed it by now, this picture will probably give it away. (Clay is comparing the reading on his GPS to an altitude marker set in the ground).





If you guessed Crater Lake, you're correct! (Sorry, no prizes for guessing correctly -- just the satisfaction that you know your geography will have to do).

The windblown hair look is really working for me, don't you think?

We're on the west side of the lake here.

We really enjoyed our trip, although it was a lot of driving time for a daytrip (3 hours each way). We probably should have made an overnighter out of it. Clay was tired today because he did all the driving and also had to watch very carefully on the way home in case a deer alongside the road decided to run out in front of us.

This is Wizard Island. (The tiny white speck in the water on the right side nearly level with the top of the island is one of the boats that takes people on a tour around the lake, if that helps you realize how big this lake really is!)

We saw quite a few deer, along with some well-fed chipmunks, lots of birds, a frog, and thousands of butterflies. We must have been in the middle of a butterfly migration of some kind -- unfortunately quite a few of them were ending up on the windshields of the cars driving through, which was not a pretty sight.

Here is a deer posing for a picture for us.

One of the hikes we went on was through a spring-fed meadow with tons of wildflowers. It was really beautiful (and an easy hike). I think we came at a really good time of year to see this. Clay was feeding the mosquitos quite a bit though!

Here is one of the springs coming down the hillside. The flowers and mosses were very pretty.